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RESORTS OF THE GULF COAST. 
GENERAL MANAGER PENSACOLA R.R. 



OOlv/IFL.IIMIEIIxrTS OF 

JOHN W. MASS, 

General Passenger & Ticket Agent, 
ST. LOUIS & SOUTHEASTERN R'Y. 

ARE YOU GOING TO SPEND THE WINTER IN 

FLORIDA ? 



THE WONDERFUL SALUBRITY OF THE CLIMATE OF FLORIDA 
IS DESTINED TO MAKE IT THE REFUGE OF THOSE WHO 
SEEK TO ESCAPE THE RIGOR OF A NORTHERN WINTER, 
SO THAT THE CHOICE OF A ROUTE IS, OF COURSE, 
THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT CONSIDERA- 
TION TO THOSE WHO INTEND OOING THERE. 
WE WOULD, THEREFORE, INVITE THE AT- 
TENTION OF OUR FRIENDS AND PAT- 
RONS TO THE SPLENDID FACILI- 
TIES AFFORDED BY THE 

St Louis & Southeastern ITy* 

BEING THE SHORT LINE BETWEEN ST. LOUIS AND THE 
SOUTHEAST, THE TRAVELER SAVES MANY MILKS BY PUR- 
CHASING HIS TICKETS VIA THIS POPULAR ROUTE. PULL- 
MAN PALACE SLEEPING COACHES RUN FROM UNION 
DEPOT, ST. LOUIS, ON ALL NIGHT TRAINS, ON THIS 
LINE ONLY— A FACT WHICH IS OF ITSELF A 
BLESSING TO THE INVALID, AVOIDING THE 
NUMEROUS CHANGES OF CARS INCIDENT TO 
OTHER LINES. THE GREATEST CARE AND 
ATTENTION IS BESTOWED UPON THE 
TRAVELER BY OUR CONDUCTORS AND 
EMPLOYEES GENERALLY, THUS FUR- 
NISHING HIM WITH ALL THE IN- 
FORMATION NECESSARY TO 
MAKE HIS JOURNEY PLEAS- 
ANT AND COMFORTABLE. 

ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE WHEREBY WE ARE 
ENABLED TO FURNISH TOURISTS WITH 

ROUND TRIP TICKETS 

TO FLORIDA AT GREATLY REDUCED RATES. 



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THE EESOETS OIF THIS O-TTIjIF COAST. 



COMPILED BY W. D. CHIPLEY, 

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THE AIR BREATHES UPON US HERE MOST SWEETLY 



HOW TO GET THERE. 

yFTEN with the tourist, 
still more frequently 
with the pleasure-seeker, 
and always with the in- 
valid or emigrant, the 
question, "How shall I 
get there," is of the first 
importance, not being 
secondary to the desti- 
nation. It seems, then, 
entirely appropriate to 
give first the best route 
to Florida, and tell after- 
wards of the soft, balmy 
atmosphere, and the attractions for the sportsman 
with rod or gun. Travelers from Pittsburg and 
Cleveland, and west thereof, find their shortest line 
to Jacksonville via Montgomery, Alabama. 
Consider these figures: 

Montgomery to Jacksonville, 4 2 5 miles. 

Montgomery to Pensacola, ID 3 miles. 

Difference in favor of Pensacola, 262 miles. 

Travelers from all the great Middle and North-western States must go 
to Montgomery to get to Jacksonville, if they are ticketed by the short 
line. Arriving at Montgomery, they can reach the Land of Flowers, at 
Pensacola, within seven (7)' ( hours, against twenty-five (25) hours, the best 
known time to Jacksonville. 

At Pensacola, the resident of a colder and less genial clime will enjoy 
the most perfect transformation. The senses are rapt by the novelty 

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of the surroundings, the suddenness and entirety of the change. As will 
be shown later, the traveler will experience, in addition to the charms of 
climate, attractions and excitements unknown to other parts of Florida. 

From the East, passengers will find the distance by the most direct 
routes as follows: 

New York to Jacksonville, 1262 miles. 

New York to Pensacola, 1218 miles. 

Difference in favor of Pensacola, 44 miles. 

With the further difference that Pensacola can be reached by a number 
of lines, all in perfect order, running double daily. trains and long lines of 
sleepers, giving fewer changes than are encountered in reaching any other 
point in Florida. 




PALAFOX STREET WHARF 



PENSACOLA. 

The splendid Bay of Pensacola, unrivaled for its beauty, depth, and 
security, was discovered by Panfilo-de-Narvaez, in 1525. Various adven- 
turers gave it different names, as Port-de-Ancluse and St. Mary's Bay, but 
that of Pensacola, which prevailed, was the true name among the Indians, 
the natives of the country. The first settlement was made by the Span- 
iards, in 1686. The first governor was Andre' Arivola, who constructed a 
small fort, called San Carlos, and erected a church upon the present site 
of Fort Barrancas. The French took Pensacola in 17 19; the Spanish 
re-took it, and the French again took it in the same year and kept it until 
1722, when it was restored to Spain. In the mean time, Pensacola had 



PENSACOLA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 




VY YARD. 



been removed to 
the west end of 
Santa Rosa Island, 
near the present 
site of Ft. Pickens, 
where the Spanish 
constructed a fort, 
which afterwards 
was improved by 
the English General 
Haldemand. The 
settlement remain- 
ed on the island un- 
til 1754, when, the 
town being partly 
inundated, the site 
was removed to the 
magnificent loca- 
tion which it now 
occupies. Pensaco- 
la was ceded to the English in 1763, by whom it was laid off in regular 
form in 1765. The town surrendered to the Spanish arms in 1781. On 
the 7th of November, 1814, General Andrew Jackson, with the American 
army, entered the town, when the English fleet in the bay destroyed the 

forts, San Carlos (at 
Barrancas) and San- 
ta Rosa. Spain rec- 
ognized "manifest 
destiny" in 181 9, 
and ceded to the 
United States the 
entire territory of 
Florida. She was 
admitted into the 
Union as a State in 
1845. During the 
war between the 
States, a consider- 
able portion of the 
old Spanish build- 
ings were destroyed 

BARRACKS AT FORT BARRANCAS. (FROM PHOTOGRAPH.) UWX. many Still T£- 




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main, and their quaint appearance strikes the stranger immediately. Since 
the war Pensacola's advance has been marked. Its population has been 
more than doubled, and its progress in architecture can be seen by the 
illustrations in this book. Extensive docks have been constructed, and 
other improvements accomplished, which stamp Pensacola as a growing 
city. 




THE CITY ANL 



PENSACOLA'S COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE. 

As this publication is for the eye of the pleasure-seeker, invalid, tourist 
and sportsman, but brief mention will be made of Pensacola's commercial 
importance. Pensacbla Bay, spacious enough to accommodate the navies 
of the world, and deep enough to load and discharge the largest vessel 
alongside the railroad docks, renders Pensacola's position unrivaled. Its 
easy access to and from the Gulf, its direct accessibility to and from the 
Western, North-western, and Central Southern States, must furnish a very 
large regular and rapidly increasing business in transportation to and from 
its ports, not only of lumber, but also of cotton, grain, coal, iron, and all 
the products of the West Indies and South America. 

It is but necessary to add Pensacola's Annual Marine Statement for the 
year ending July i, 1877, to astonish the uninformed. 

. 270, tonnage 200,801, men in crew 4,273. 
• no, " 35,56o, " " 987. 

. 210, " 59,208, " " 2,198. 



Foreign vessels entered. 
American " " 

Coasting " " 



Total vessels 



590, 



295^69. 



7,458. 



The value of Exports from Pensacola during the same year amounted to $2,291,822. 




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Consider 7,458 men coming to Pensacola each year from every quarter 
of the Globe, the 1,200 stevedores and assistants who make Pensacola their 
winter home, and its resident population of 6,000, and it can truly be said 
that Pensacola offers more stir, variety, and reality of life than any city in 
Florida. What port in the State, or in America, can show over 200 square 
rigged vessels in its harbor at one time, as is often the case at Pensacola? 
This attraction will steadily enhance, as arrangements are being perfected 
to export iron and coal in increased quantities, via Pensacola; and cotton 
and grain shippers have at last awakened to the remarkable facilities 
that are offered by the port, and the exportation of both has been fairly 
started. 



CLIMATE, HEALTH, SOCIETY, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS. 

Florida has been called the Italy of America, and the thousands who 
have breathed its genial, healthy, life-giving atmosphere will cheerfully 
testify that it is no misnomer. In summer the heat is tempered by a gulf 
breeze of softness and purity unsurpassed, and the thermometer seldom 
reaches 92 °. Dr. J. C. Whiting, from thermometrical observations at his 

hospital, in Pensacola, 
gives the following ta- 
ble of mean tempera- 
ture for 1876: 

January 54.71 

February 54. 56 

March 64.9S 

April 62.93 

May 75.40 

June 81.00 

July 84.55 

August 84.10 

September .... 81.44 

October 7!-34 

November 58.89 

December 49.60 

The ' ; Indian Sum- 
mer" of the Middle 
and more Northern 
States closely resem- 
bles a Florida winter, 
and will convey a bet- 
ter idea than can be 
written o f a season 
which in Florida ad- 
mits of life in the open 

a. stoddard's residence. (from photograph.) air > While Citizens OI 




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RESIDENCE OF COMMANDANT AT NAVY YARD. 



the North are hovering 
over great fires or shiv- 
ering in heavy wraps, as 
the rude blasts of winter 
cut to the bone. The 
fact that the thermom- 
eter rarely falls below 
32 ° fits Pensacola as a 
grand sanitarium for the 
whole country. Three 
times within twenty-five 
years yellow fever has 
scourged Pensacola, but 
in every instance the ep- 
idemic was traceable to 
some ship from an infect- 
ed port. In no instance 
has the disease ever orig- 
inated in the city, nor 
does it ever extend into 
the country beyond the city limits. A proper quarantine always protects 
the city, and in 1875 it kept Pensacola free from fever, even when it was 
raging at the navy yard, where it was carried by a marine who surrepti- 
tiously visited an infected vessel for the purpose of trading. 

Liability to yellow fever being controlled, Pensacola's baths, boating, 
and fishing are rapidly increasing its popularity as a summer resort. Winter 
and summer its healthfulness is marvelous, except during epidemics. To 
winter visitors the fever is of no concern, as it is gone before they come. 
They luxuriate in a soft, salubrious atmosphere, with health in every 
breath. All classes of chronic diseases, such as diarrhea, dysentery, 
rheumatism, diseases of the kidneys, and incipient pulmonary cases are 
benefited and relieved by a visit to Pensacola. 

Invalids in the advanced stages of phthysis pulmonalis who have visited 
St. Augustine have experienced the too stimulating effect of the salt air. 
This class will find the same difficulty at Pensacola, with this difference 
and advantage: They can remove into the interior, and among the piney 
woods breathe the salt air of the gulf modified into gentle zephyrs, which 
the invalid may safely inhale, and which never fail to re-animate and ben- 
efit. At the same time the location is not out of the world, but within less 
than twelve hours' journey from the cities of New Orleans, Mobile, Pensa- 
cola, and Montgomery. Statistics testify to the healthfulness of Florida. 
Notwithstanding the fact that so many thousands of consumptives resort 



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to the State for relief, the proportion of deaths from pulmonary complaints 
in it is less than in any other State in the Union. The census of 1870 

showed that these deaths 




were as follows: 

Massachusetts . . 

Maine 

Vermont 

New York .... 
Pennsylvania .' . . 

Ohio 

California .... 

Virginia 

Indiana 

Illinois 

Florida 



. one in 283 

• " 315 

• " 463 

• " 379 
" 47o 

• " 507 

• " 45o 

• " 585 
" 599 
" 698 

• " i,433 
The Presbyterian, Meth- 
odist, Episcopal, Baptist, 
and Catholic congregations 
have comfortable church 
buildings. The illustration 
shows the Episcopal Church 
the oldest house of worship 

in the city, having been constructed more than half a cen- 
tury ago. The system of public schools is liberal and 
efficient, and in addition a number of private schools are well supported. 
Principal among the charms of Pensacola is its society. The people are 
pleasant, refined, and intelligent, and the stranger is surprised at the cor- 
dial hospitality extended from every quarter. 



HUNTING, FISHING, BOATING, BATHING. 

By consulting the map of Pensacola and its surroundings, the reader will 
observe the net-work of water-courses, bays, and bayous centering at that 
city. The water is clear, bright, and beautiful. Surf bathing upon Santa 
Rosa beach as enjoyable as language can express, the salt water bathing in 
the bath-houses of the bay, and bathing in fresh water as clear as crystal, 
can all be had within a distance of seven miles. One may weary of St. John 
River, which at first impresses the beholder as grand, but soon becomes 
monotonous. How different the broad, beautiful Bay of Pensacola! On 
its rolling waters one can never tire. For lovers of St. John scenery the 
Santa Rosa Sound offers a magnificent substitute, with Live Oak Planta- 
tion skirting its bank on one side, and only Santa Rosa Island, with its 
narrow strip of soil, between it and the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico 
on the other. The Perdido Bay is one of the loveliest sheets of water in the 



PENSACOLA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 



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State, rivaled by the Escambia Bay, with its bluffs and ever-movings fleets. 
Any attempt to particularize becomes confusing, as the special beauties and 
attractions of the different bays and bayous are remembered. Escambia 
River is the "Ocklawaha" of West Florida. The stranger who wishes to 
enjoy a short trip will be pleased as the steamer plows through the broad, 
placid waters of Escambia Bay, and then delighted with the luxuriance of 
the tropical growth as the vessel winds its way up the narrow and tortuous 
channel of Escambia River to Molino. At this point the excursionist can 
take the train and return by rail to Pensacola. 

The fresh water fishing is superb. The waters literally swarm with all 
kinds of fish, notably trout, black bass, and pike. All varieties of perch 
abound, including a special kind, a very game fish, called bream. It is 
not unusual for a good angler to pull out fifty to sixty of these fish in an 
hour weighing from a half to one pound. Both in salt and fresh water 
fishing is carried on with pleasure and profit the entire year. In the bay 
and bayous every description of salt water fish abound, and in the season 
fifty cents will purchase half a dozen Spanish mackerel of the size for 
which the epicure pays seventy-five cents for one half in the restaurants 
of New York City. These fish, and the salt water trout, give special 
excitement to those who love a contest with a very game fish. No one 
can claim to have seen what fishing is until they have visited the snapper 
banks off Santa Rosa Island. There the famous red snapper can be 

caught, two at a time, 
weighing from five 
pounds to sixty, as 
rapidly as the line is 
thrown in. The limit 
to the quantity catch- 
able is commensurate 
with the physical en- 
durance of the catch- 
er. An illustration is 
here given (from a 
photograph) of four 
fish caught by a party 
in Pensacola Bay. 
One weighing 214 
pounds was drawn 
out after it was killed 
by shooting, by Thos. 
R. Hopkins, No. 194 

SPECIMEN OF PENSACOLA FISH. (FROM PHOTOGRAPH) TUltOn St.,JMeW YOrK. 




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It is claimed that no one can know the flavor of fresh fish until he has 
eaten a Pompano, at Pensacola. Pensacola's importance as a fishing point 

is best described by 
the true statement 
that its dealers ship 
all kinds of fish to 
Mobile, New Orleans 
and other points, by 
the car load. An- 
other very attractive 
amusement is turtle 
hunting, on Santa 
Rosa Island. It is 
not unusual to find 
as many as 180 eggs 
in one nest. From 
the Junction to Pen- 
sacola, all around 
the city, and oppo- 
site it, in Live Oak 
Plantation, every de- 
scription of game 

RUINS OF FORT M'RAE, WITH FORT PICKENS IN THE DISTANCE. rati hp foimd in 

large numbers, including deer, turkeys, and partridges, with an occasional 
bear. It should impress every one that it is not necessary to exile one's 
self, and endure all the imaginary pleasures of camp life, to secure the best 
possible sport with rod and gun; both are within from one to three hours' 
drive, sail, or walk of the hotels. The splendid duck shooting at the 
mouths of the rivers, in season, should not be forgotten. Oysters of the 
finest size and flavor are taken in any quantity wanted. Attention has 
been turned to planting the bivalve, with fine results. Last winter, Mr 
Alexander Stoddard, of No. 175 Broadway, set out 750,000 in Bayou 
Texar, along the water front of his fine estate. 

This chapter would not be complete without mentioning the facilities 
for reaching, via Pensacola, St. Andrews' Bay, St. Joseph, Apalachicola, 
and other famous fishing grounds and hunting fields of the Florida coast. 

Wild turkeys are seen between the rails of the Pensacola Railroad, and 
along its line partridges roam apparently without fear. From its coaches 
the crack of the rifle can be heard as it brings down a deer. It is when 
the sportsman tires of this game, and desires an encounter with a bear, 
wild-cat or panther, that he needs to seek St. Andrews and the contiguous 
country. 




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THE VICINITY OF PENSACOLA. 

The pleasure of boating at Pensacola is not confined to fishing or idly 
rolling on the mighty wave, or smoothly plowing the placid waters; but 
added to these charms are the numerous places in the vicinity to go to. 
The stranger who may visit it will not wonder at finding first on this list 
Santa Rosa Island. Upon its beach, mid-day in its overflowing brilliancy, 
makes the beholder feel as if, according to Milton, "Another morn had 
risen on mid-noon." The sunset comes with a splendor and glory un- 
known to more Northern climes. As the ever-moving waves roll, with per- 
meated and ever-varying colors, upon the snow-white sand, one feels the 
awful supremacy of the Almighty, and the littleness of man, in a manner 
conveyed by no other sight in nature. While on the island, very few 
visitors fail to find an interest in collecting shells and sea-beans. Then 
comes a visit to Fort Pickens; this grand and historic old edifice, though 
denuded of a portion of the iron dogs of war that used to bay, not "deep 
mouthed welcome home," but roars of defiance, still possesses a multitude 
of pleasant and interesting sights and objects that make a visit there both 
profitable and agreeable. 

Across the bay is the Navy Yard, and just west of the Navy Yard is 
Fort Barrancas. Both are beautiful and will interest the most indifferent. 
Added to the novelties to be seen, is the delightful society enjoyed by 
all who know the hos- 
pitable and intelli- 
gent officers of both 
the garrisons. Below 
Barrancas is the Pen- 
sacola Light-house, 
illustrated on the 
cover of this book 
from a photograph, 
and said to be the 
finest light on the 
Gulf. Near by is 
Fort McRae, once 
familiar with all the 
"pomp and circum- 
stance of glorious 
war," but where now 
the solemn bat reigns 
supreme, in a silence 
only broken by the 




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never-ceasing roll of the mighty ocean, as the wild waves dash upon its 
once proud walls. Years ago it was built upon a foundation which seemed 
as enduring as granite, 
but the Gulf threatened, 
and for a time its fall was 
averted by the construc- 
tion of an immense sea 
wall. The rolling waters 
could not be withstood, 
and the illustrations will 
show the condition of its 
ruined battlements, case- 
mates, ramparts, and 
posterns, which are now 
tumbling to decay. It 
is at McRae that the 
searcher after shells and 
other marine treasures is 
most successful. With 
the old Spanish fort, the 
pretty villages of Milton 
and Bagdad the LiveOak ruins of fort m'rae, with light house in the distance. 

Plantation, bays, bayous, sounds, and rivers, this chapter might be extended 
indefinitely. Suffice it to say that the visitor at Pensacola must tire of going, 
seeing, enjoying, long before the list of attractive places to go to have been 
exhausted. 




WEST FLORIDA— ITS LOCATION AND PRODUCTIONS. 

West' Florida is in no respect an agricultural country at present, for the 
reason that heretofore the timber interest has absorbed the entire energies 
of the country. The timber wealth is on the surface, but under the surface 
lies hidden wealth which is yet to be dug out of the soil. The climate, as 
explained in a previous chapter, is semi-tropical and devoid of extremes in 
heat and cold. The country is the best watered in the world, and its health- 
fulness is as near perfect as that of any section of the Globe. It is only 
necessary to let its attractions and advantages be known to see in a few 
years the entire State dotted with happy homes, churches, schools, and 
villages. Great fertility by virtue of soil the lands of West Florida do not 
possess, nor can the combination of extreme fertility and health be found 
in any new country. But vegetation here performs the prodigy once attrib- 
uted to the chamelion, it lives on air. Let it but obtain a hold in the earth, 
and an atmosphere which seldom knows a freeze seems to compel it to grow 




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BLACKWATER (FORMERLY BAGDAD). SIMPSON & CO.'S MILL. 



and come to bloom and fruitage in the fine yields of the country. Drouths 
are not usual, but when they occur crops seem to stand them much better 
than in higher lati- 
tudes. The soil gives 
a generous return for 
all applications of fer- 
tilizers. Nothing is 
grown in East Florida 
north of Melonville, 
that will not grow in 
West Florida, with the 
difference that eligible 
land can be bought in 
the latter section for 
one tenth the prices 
charged in the form- 
er. The first settlers 
in West Florida will 
find a large and re- 
munerative market at 
home for their truck and other products; articles now brought from the 
up-country by the train-load to supply the resident and visiting population. 
When the home supply has been met, the farmer will find the lines of trans- 
portation cheap, quick, and reliable, leading to the great Middle and North- 
western States, where the fruit shipper from Florida will not encounter the 
disastrous island competition met with in the cities of the East, where East 
Florida finds its principal markets. The nearer proximity of West Florida 
to the interior markets, by nearly twenty-four hours express and over thirty- 
six hours freight train travel, must create a steady and rapid advance in its 
agricultural interests. 

The new-comer will find lands on the railroads for sale, but should other 
points be preferred it requires but a glance at the map to note how all the 
rivers, bays, sounds, and bayous, from the Perdido to the Choctawhatchee 
River, center in Pensacola Bay, making Pensacola their natural business 
metropolis, to whose market crops can be floated safely and cheaply. 

Every description of melon and vegetable, and all the cereals can be 
grown, and of the latter suitable kinds can be used successfully for green 
soiling or for winter pasturage, to assist the immense ranges during the 
months when the grass and cane are least nutritious. It would astonish a 
"down-country" planter to see the yield of rice upon these uplands; and 
sugar cane also makes a remunerative return. It is when fruits are consid- 
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a stone's throw of the railroad, worth from $2 to $3 per acre, make the 
finest peach orchards in America, the yield being of superior size and flavor, 
and the trees are remarkably long lived. Lands for oranges, lemons, and 
other semi-tropical fruits, unsurpassed by any in the State, can be had at 
from $5 to $25 per acre, which with similar location in East Florida would 
cost $50 to $100 per acre, notwithstanding the advantage of transportation 
is with the cheaper lands. It would be a grave oversight to omit mention- 
ing the prolific pecan tree, the luscious pears and plums and very fair 
apples which the soil produces. 

West Florida seems to be nature's vineyard, so great is the yield of the 
numerous varieties of grapes. First, the fruit can be sent to supply the 
early markets of the North, and later, wine can be manufactured. For the 
latter purpose the scuppernong, which grows to special perfection, is very 
greatly prized. Lord Raleigh landed in North Carolina, near Newbern, 
nearly two centuries ago; he there tasted the scuppernong for the first time, 
from a vine still in existence, which three years ago, it is said, yielded 
forty-two barrels of wine. 

White, in his description of this grape, says: "We consider this very 
peculiar grape one of the greatest boons to the South. It has very little 
resemblance to any of the grapes of the other sorts. It is a rampant 
grower and requires little, if any, cultivation. It blooms from the fifteenth 
to the last of June, and ripens its fruit in West Florida about the latter part 
of August. It has no disease in wood, leaf, or fruit, and rarely, if ever, 
fails to produce a heavy crop. We have never known it to fail. Neither 
birds nor insects ever attack the fruit. We are credibly informed that a 
vine of this variety is growing near Mobile, which has produced two hun- 
dred and fifty bush- 
els of grapes in a 
year, and we know 
that vines ten years 
old have given and 
will give thirty bush- 
els per vine. From 
three to three and 
a half gallons of 
juice can be gotten 
from a bushel of 
these grapes, ac- 
cording to ripeness. 
It is the sweetest 
and most luscious 
bluff springs mill, (from photograph.) of any grape we 




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have ever seen or tasted, makes a fine, heavy, high-flavored, fruity wine, 
and is peculiarly adapted to making foaming wines." 

It would run this theme through innumerable pages to dwell upon the 
luscious strawberries and other delicacies, but, at the risk of being prosy, 
the fig must not be overlooked. This fruit, so delightful when eaten ripe 
from the tree, is the best dried fruit known, and is without a parallel as a 
preserve or pickle. Mr. Alexander Stoddart, of 175 Broadway, New York, 
has now every known variety (twenty-two) on his place, and in a few years 
the pickling for market from his place alone will reach a large amount 
annually. Mr. Stoddart added sixty acres last year to his orange and 
pecan groves and orchards of peaches and figs. His vineyards and straw- 




BLUFFS, ESCAMBIA BAY. (ILLUSTKATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS 



berry beds have been more than doubled, and in another year he will 
be running refrigerator cars to the various markets of the North. 

The Escambia bluffs shown in illustration above are on the place of 
the Yniestra Brothers. At this beautiful spot, a veritable Eden, can be 
found all the products of Florida, including several thousand orange trees. 
The buildings under the bluff are the sheds under which the bricks for the 
Dry Tortugas forts were made. These bluffs extend for miles, offering the 
most desirable location in all Florida for orange groves. 

The land is slightly rolling, dry and arable, except occasional swamps 
near the mouths of rivers and heads of some of the bayous and bays. 
The rain fall is sufficient, and on the streams, with which the country is so 
magnificently watered, can be found numerous and superior water-powers. 



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TURTLE-EGG AND ALLIGATOR HUNTING ON SANTA ROSA. 

Santa Rosa Island is a sand key of the Gulf, forty miles long, and 
varying in breadth from a fifth of a mile to over a mile across; it is the 
breakwater of Pensacola Harbor, and receives the shock of the rolling 
seas of the Gulf of Mexico which often break against it in fury, while the 
waters of the bay within are still as a mill-pond and scarce a ripple washes 
the beach of the city front seven miles away, though the water at the city 
is as salt as that in the center of the Gulf. The sea beach of the island is 
a gently sloping expanse of white sand, back and forth on which the 
advancing and receding waves will glide for hundreds of feet. You can 
stand where no water is 
one moment, and the 
next be struggling waist 
deep against a surging 
wave that is climbing up 
the strand. This beach 
is the incubator of the 
great turtles of the Gulf. 
Its gradual incline, the 
easily excavated sand 
beyond, and the warm 
southern exposure, adapt 
it to their approach, the 
making of nests, and 
hatching of their eggs. 
So they resort to it for 
this purpose, and in due 
time the young turtles 
are hatched, unless the 
eggs are captured by the various creatures, biped and quadruped, who seek 
them in the season. From Pensacola over to the island is about seven miles, 
and as the land breeze of the night sets fair across the bay, it is a pleasant 
trip of moonlight nights to run over on a sail-boat, land on the bay shore, 
walk across the island, which is not a third of a mile wide opposite the city, 
and seek for "turtle crawls" on the Gulf beach, or bathe luxuriously in the 
surf. The "crawl" shows on the sand where the under shell has been 
dragged along, and following this up to a point above the wash of the 
highest waves, the nest is found, usually about two and a half feet below 
the surface. A single nest will contain from ioo to 300 eggs. At Sabine 
Pass, on Santa Rosa Island, alligators are found by the ten thousand, and 
are killed in large numbers by hunters who frequent the place. 




RESIDENCE OF HON. C. W. JONES, U. S. SENATOR. 



20 



PENSACOLA AND ITS SURROUNDING'S. 




MUSCOGEE SOUTH MILL. 



vegetation. 



PENSACOLA'S TIMBER TRADE. 

The immense forests of 
pitch pine tributary to Pen- 
sacola, notwithstanding the 
large business annually trans- 
acted, have as yet only been 
worked on the edges lying 
alongside the creeks, rivers, 
lakes and bayous. Untold 
acres of virgin forests remain 
to be stripped of the growth 
of many centuries, to give 
place to the farmer, whose 
labor will make the land smile 
with a luxuriant wealth of 
This transition must be gradual, and for years to come Pen- 
sacola's superior supply, in connection with its absolutely secure harbor 
and a depth of water which can load a vessel to twenty-three feet within 
six feet of cars on the railroad docks, must continue it as the chief timber 
port of the country. The busy whirr of the saw will be heard for at least 
a quarter of a century before existing forests are gone, and as one growth 
is cut away another will spring up where the plow of the farmer does not 
prevent. On the line of the Pensacola Railroad are four mills, two belong- 
ing to the Muscogee Lumber Company, the Molino and Bluff Springs, with 
a cutting capacity of over sixty millions of superficial feet per annum. At 
Millview, connected with Pensacola by the Pensacola & Perdido Railroad, 
are six mills, with a capacity of sixty-five millions of superficial feet each 
twelve months. Simpson's mills, Blackwater, Skinner's, Wright's, Bay Point, 
Bayou, and others make the aggregate cutting capacity of mills contiguous 
to Pensacola exceed two hundred million feet per annum. In addition to 
this sawn stuff, thousands of pieces of hewn timber are floated down the 
streams to market. Even the forests of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers 
have been made tributary to Pensacola, by an arrangement to float the 
timber to Tensas Station, Alabama, and transport from that point by rail, 
after it has been loaded by steam machinery. This timber will be dis- 
charged at Pensacola into a boom whose capacity exceeds ten thousand 
sticks. As it is alongside the railroad docks, within the corporate limits of 
the city, and not more than three hundred feet from water thirty feet deep, 
the arrangement must give a wonderful impetus to Pensacola's timber trade. 
It affords absolute security against blows, and avoids the expense and risk 
of towage from Ferry Pass — in short, it is perfect. 



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PENSACOLA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 




ESCAMBIA RIVER SCENERY. 

SWEET FLORIDA, GOOD-BYE! 

A SONG. 

WRITTEN BY MR. DRAKE, CLERK OF MAJ. OGDEN, U. S. ENGINEERS, UPON HIS DEPARTURE FROM FLORIDA. 

(Popular in Pensacola thirty years ago.) 

Sweet Florida, good-bye to thee! 

Thou land of song and flowers, 
Where generous hearts and beauty dwell 

Amid thy fragrant bowers. 
The interest deep, the love I feel, 

Bound by each genial tie, 
• Bloom like thy sweet magnolia. 

Sweet Florida, good-bye! 

Sweet Florida, good-bye! 



I go to seek another clime, 

But go where e'er I may, 
The love I bear to thee and thine 

No change can chase away. 
Santa Rosa's snow-white sands 

Are fading from my sight; 
Farewell awhile to thee and thine. 

Sweet Florida, good-night! 

Sweet Florida, good-night! 



PENSACOLA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 



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MOBILE, NEW ORLEANS, AND RESORTS OF THE GULF COAST. 

MOBILE. 

Mobile Jies in latitude 30 41', at the head of the bay and mouth of the 
river of the same name. The surrounding country, broken into beautiful 
undulations, is covered with pine timber, the resinous exhalations from 
which give such celebrity to this region as conducive to health. These 
hills and valleys are carpeted all the year with green grass which grows 
luxuriantly amid the tall pines of the forest. 

Mobile possesses peculiar attractions to the seeker after pleasure, com- 
fort, or health. Its climate is mild and salubrious; its inhabitants genial, 
hospitable, and refined; its residences abound with evidences of a culti- 
vated taste, and here may be 
seen during the entire win- 
ter flowers in full bloom and 
trees loaded with oranges. 
Here also the mere seeker 
after ease may enjoy that com- 
fort denied in a colder and 
more inhospitable climate, and 
the more robust may enjoy 
field sports within easy reach 
of the city. The bay swarms 
with fish and ducks. Snipe 
and woodcock frequent the 
savannahs of the pine lands, 
and the rolling hills, rising 
hundreds of feet, are haunts 
of the partridge and deer. 

The water of all this pine region is peculiarly pure, and its streams are 
clear and beautiful. The soil is sandy, and consequently, even in wettest 
weather, there is practical freedom from mud. Fruits and vegetables are 
grown during the entire year in the open air, while fresh and salt water 
fish, and game, complete the attractions of the market. 

No place affords more delightful drives or smoother roads. The visitor 
is confined to no special one, though the loveliest of all is the shell road, 
which leads through groves of magnificent magnolias along the margin 
of the broad and lovely bay. 

This bay lies between many points of interest to the student of history. 
Near its outlet is Fort Morgan, occupying the site of old Fort Bowyer, 




WOOLSEY ENTRANCE TO NAVY YARD, PENSACOLA. 



24 



PENSACOLA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 




BIRD S-EYE VIEW OF NAVY YARD, PENSACOLA. 



which once repelled a large British fleet, and where recently a yet more 
famous strife took place. Near this and opposite is Fort Gaines, and 
further on Fort Pow- 
ell, while at the head 
of the bay is Spanish 
Fort. Around all of 
these many memories 
cluster. At various 
contiguous points are 
mounds erected by 
an unknown people, 
and in these mounds 
are found the re- 
mains of these ex- 
tinct races. 

Near the city, on 
the line of the Mobile 
& Ohio Railroad, are 
many healthful re- 
sorts, chief among 
which is Citronelle, 
a village rapidly becoming famous for the salubritry of its atmosphere, so 
peculiarly favorable to those suffering from pulmonary disease. This town 
is reached by a special accommodation train in addition to the daily mail 
service. And along the eastern shore of the bay are villages, with cheap 
and comfortable accommodations for boarders, as far as Point Clear, where 

there is a large, commo- 
dious, and well-kept ho- 
tel, all reached daily by 
a pleasant trip on a fine 
low-pressure steamer. 
From Mobile to New Or- 
leans, distant 140 miles, 
the railroad skirts the 
Gulf of Mexico, and all 
along are villages and 
cottages where may be 
combined the peculiar 
attractions of this coast 
and all the appliances of 
civilization — daily mails, 

RUINS OF OLD SPANISH FORT NEAR PENSACOLA. telegrapUS, a 11 O T a p 1 Q 




PEA'S A COLA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 



25 



transit to near and great centers of population. All this region is expedi- 
tiously and pleasantly reached by the Mobile & Ohio R. R., which stretches 
out its arms 500 miles northward, and by the Montgomery & Mobile R'y, 
extending to Montgomery, with connections to all points west and north, 
inviting from colder climes the pleasure seeker, tired man of business, and 
invalid, to enjoy themselves and recuperate in its balmy air. 




VNIESTRA BL( 



PENSACOLA 



(FROM PHOTOGRAPH.; 



NEW ORLEANS. 

New Orleans! How the mere sound comes freighted with visions of 
pleasure, luxury and comfort. The Paris of America it certainly is, but 
its delights are not confined to the gayeties of life. Within its abundant 
resources every taste and disposition find their full measure of pleasure 
and ease. It would be a superfluity for these pages to dwell upon the 
attractions of this glorious old city, for they would repeat things charming 
enough in themselves, but as familiar all over the country as household 
words. 

The tourist would be well repaid by a visit to this grand old city, filled 
with monuments of historic lore. Here are the famous plains of Chal- 
mette, memorable by the rout of the British by Jackson. Here also Forts 
St. Philip and Jackson defending the entrance to the city. 



26 



PENSACOLA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 



The French Market is a unique feature of New Orleans, with its many- 
varied and attractive stalls laden with every luxury in the shape of game, 
fruit, vegetables, fish, oranges, etc. One meets representatives of all the 
nations of the earth, all talking at the same time in their respective tongues, 
and making a perfect Babel of sounds. This market is celebrated over the 
entire country for its delightful coffee, and no visitor to the city fails to visit 
the market for the purpose of trying it. 

Numberless lines of city railway cars traverse the principal streets, 
affording rapid transit from one point of interest to another. The Branch 
Mint, on Esplanade Street, when in operation, is well worth a visit. A ride 
on the levee, with its forests of masts and shipping, steamers, fiat-boats, 
and barges which line its side for miles, is novel and pleasant. 

The Jockey Club Course, Fair Grounds, and the various cemeteries, 
monuments, churches, and other public buildings, afford innumerable 
points of attraction. In fact it would take too much time and space to begin 
to enumerate the many points of interest or places of amusement, for their 
name is legion. This city is noted for the hospitality of its people and the 
beauty and elegance of its women. 

Previous to the opening of the New Orleans & Mobile Railroad the 
attractions of the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, either as a summer or winter 
resort, were of comparatively local celebrity. The only means of commu- 
nication was a daily line of steamers, running between New Orleans and 
Mobile, and stopping at the various points along the coast; and yet thou- 
sands of families from 
the interior of the states 
adjoining were regular 
visitors, season after 
season, while a great 
many built residences 
and occupied them per- 
manently. But from 
the date of the opening 
of the railroad, and the 
more rapid, frequent, 
and convenient com- 
munication thus estab- 
lished, the advantages 
of a sojourn on the 
the coast became more 
widely known, and peo- 
ple from all parts of the 

A PINEY WOODS HOME, FLORIDA. (FROM PHOTOGRAPH.) COUntry CaiTlC, DOlll aS 




PENSACOLA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 



27 




PENSACOLA & PERDIDO RAILROAD WHARF, PENSACOLA. 



summer and winter 
visitors. Possessing 
a remarkably mild, 
pleasant and healthy 
climate, fanned by 
the salt day breezes 
from the Gulf, the 
shade heat of sum- 
mer rarely exceeds 
85 °, andthe cold of 
winter scarcely ever 
reaches the freezing 
point. The great 
abundance of game, 
fish, and oysters, and 
the fine sailing, row- 
ing, and bathing, en- 
tice the visitor to that 
healthful out -door 
recreation which 
makes a sojourn at any of the points along the coast no less enjoyable than 
beneficial to health. 

Beginning at Waveland Station — about forty-five miles from New Or- 
leans — a line of residences, almost unbroken except by the bays and inlets 
of the coast, extends for nearly fifty miles. Clustering together here and 
there, by the side of some broad and quiet bay, these seaside homes form 
themselves into villages, at which the railroad company has established 
stations, and where the visitor finds hotel or boarding-house accommo- 
dations, churches, schools, and all facilities for healthful enjoyment. 

A vast pine forest, seventy-five to one hundred miles wide, and reach- 
ing almost the whole length of the coast, mingles its balsamic odors with 
the salt breezes of the Gulf, bringing health to the feeble and pleasure to 
all. Millions of wild fowl of all descriptions swarm about the bays and 
marshes during the winter months, and the hunter never fails to bring back 
abundance of game from his excursions among the neighboring islands. 

Oranges of unsurpassed flavor are grown in abundance along the whole 
coast. Not a residence or hotel that does not have its bearing orange 
trees, and at various places extensive orchards of this most delicious fruit 
are to be seen flourishing side by side with the peach, pear, apple, fig, and 
olive tree. In addition to the attractions of a healthful, mild and equable 
climate, fully equal in all respects to that of Florida, a short ride over one 
of the finest and best equipped railroads in the country, takes the visitor 



2 8 PENSACOLA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 

sojourning on this coast to New Orleans or Mobile, and thus combines all 
the pleasures and comforts of city life with those of the winter resort. No 
traveler, seeking either health or pleasure, will fail to appreciate the advan- 
tage of this nearness to the unvarying round of winter amusements for 
which New Orleans is so justly celebrated. 




CONTINENTAL HOTEL, PENSACOLA. (FROM PHOTOGRAPH 



WAVELAND STATION— 47 Miles from New Orleans. 
At this point the residences on the coast begin, and extend side by side, 
to the bay of St. Louis. There are as yet no hotels, but several private 
boarding-houses will accommodate visitors. The soil is well adapted to 
the culture of almost all fruits and vegetables. Several extensive orange 
orchards and scuppernong vineyards are now under successful cultivation. 

BAY ST. LOUIS— 52 Miles from New Orleans. 
This thriving village is situated on the western shore of the Bay of St. 
Louis, and extends around on the Gulf front. There are three very com- 
fortable hotels and many private boarding-houses. Population about 2,000. 
Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Catholic congregations. Two 
public and several excellent private schools for both sexes. One of the 
loveliest views in the South is that presented to the traveler approaching 
Bay St. Louis by the railroad from the east. The broad Bay on the right, 
and the waters of the Gulf on the left, with the beautiful sweep of the 



PENSACOLA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 



2 9 



shore, covered with verdure, and crowned with its line of neat white cot- 
tages, form a picture of calm and lovely beauty which can not but charm 
the senses of the traveler seeking rest or health. The railroad company 
has erected a costly and handsome station-house at this point, where pas- 
sengers breakfast and dine. 

Commencing far up the shore of the Bay, a well kept shell road, eight 
miles in length, runs along the top of the bluff around the point, and west- 
ward on the Gulf shore for several miles, making one of the finest drives 
in the country. Several large oak groves in the vicinity of the station are 
being fitted up by the railroad company for picnic grounds. 




STREET SCENE, PENSACOLA, WITH RESIDENCE OF LATE HON. 

IN CENTER. 



V C. S. NAVY, 



PASS CHRISTIAN— 58 Miles from New Orleans. 
Pass Christian has a permanent population of about 2,000. There are 
three handsome church edifices: Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Catholic. 
Three public schools, a fine school for young ladies, and a very excellent 
private school for boys; also a Catholic institution for small children. 
Several good hotels and private boarding-houses. Furnished houses can 
be had at reasonable rates by the month or season. Pass Christian is justly 
celebrated for the number of handsome residences it contains, and for its 
fine shell road, extending along the entire water front of the village. 

MISSISSIPPI CITY— 70 Miles from New Orleans. 
Mississippi City is the county seat of Harrison County. It has a per- 
manent population of about 400. Two good hotels — the Tegarden Hotel, 
situated near the station, and convenient to the water, and Barnes Hotel, 
directly on the front. Excellent fishing and boating all the year around. 



30 



PENSACOLA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 



BILOXI— 80 Miles from New Orleans. 
Biloxi has a permanent population of over 2,100, and is one of the 
most thriving towns on the coast. It is situated on a peninsula formed by 
the Back Bay of Biloxi and the Gulf, being thus almost surrounded by fine 
fishing and ducking ground. Deer Island, a narrow strip of land, a short 
distance off the front of the town, is a favorite resort for both hunters and 
fishermen. There are four churches: Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal, and 
Catholic. Good public schools, and several fine private educational insti- 
tutions. The Montross House and other fine hotels and boarding-houses 
offer excellent accommodation to visitors. 




MOLINO MILLS, PENSACOLA RAILROAD. 

OCEAN SPRINGS— 85 Miles from New Orleans. 
The situation of Ocean Springs differs from other towns along the coast, 
in the fact that the land here rises to a greater altitude and is more broken 
or rolling. On the west it faces the Bay of Biloxi, and on the south the 
Gulf. At various points in the town and vicinity mineral springs, posses- 
sing rare medicinal qualities, are found, the virtues of which were tradi- 
tional with the Indians who formerly inhabited the coast. The population 
of the town is about 1,900. There are four churches: Methodist, Baptist, 
Episcopal, and Catholic. One public school and four private institutions 
of learning. The Ocean Springs Hotel has been recently purchased by 
Northern parties, and completely furnished, with a view to the entertain- 
ment of Northern visitors. In addition to the fishing, hunting, and boat- 
ing to be enjoyed at this point, the mineral springs are highly recommended 
by the medical faculty for the relief of many chronic diseases. 



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NORTH, EAST AND WEST 



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VIA LOUISVILLE. 



TWO DAILY EXPRESS TRAINS 

RUNNING 

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LEAVE LOUISVILLE, MAKING CLOSE AND DIRECT CONNECTIONS 
ALL THE WAY THROUGH. 

THEBE ABE MO DETENTIONS! 

MO UNPLEASANT CHANGES I 

The Route Through is composed of A No. I RAIL LINES, unsurpassed 
by any Route in the South. 

TEY TIHIIE 
C. P. ATMORE, Gen'l Passenger and Ticket Agent. 



MOBILES OHIO RAILROAD 



THE POPULAR LINE BETWEEN 



w Orleans, Mobile. Pensacola, 



JL*© MM* FQIMTS SOTTM MB SOUTHWEST, 



CHICAGO 



YIA MOBILE JlJSTJD ST. LOTJTS. 

THE ONLY LINE RUNNING 

PULLMAN PALACE Aid SLEEPING GABS 

..Between St. Louis and New .Orleans, 

(^WITHOUT OHA3STGE.^t) 
COMMEOTOMS. 

At COLUMBUS, KY., with St. Louis, Iron Mountain. & Southern Railway. 

At UNION CITY, with Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway. 

At RIVES, with Paducah &. Memphis Railroad. 

At HUMBOLDT, with Louisville & Nashville & Great Southern Railroad. 

At JACKSCN, TENN., with Mississippi Central Railroad. 

At CORINTH, with Memphis & Charleston Railroad. 

At MERIDIAN, with Ala. & Chat, Ala. Cent, and Vicks. & Meridian R. R'ds, 

At MOBILE, with New Orleans & Mobile Railroad. 

At MOBILE, with Mobile &. Montgomery Railway for PENSACOLA. 

PASSENGER TRAINS ARE FULLY EQUIPPED WITH 

WestiiiEtase Air Brale anil Miller's Safety Platform and Coupler. 

Tickets can be obtained via this Route at all 

PRINCIPAL TICKET OFFICES IN THE U. S. AND CANADA. 

KATES ALWAYS AS LOW AS VIA ANY OTHER LINE. 

A. L. RIVES, C. FLEMING, CHAS. L. FITCH, 

Gen'l Manager. Ass't Gen'l Sup't. Gen'l Pass. Agent. 



«^For a Copy of this Book Free send your address to W, D. CHIPLEY, Gen'l Manager P.R.R., Pensacola, Fla 



:fxjO:r,i:d_a„ 

The wonderful salubrity of the climate of Florida is destined to make it the refuge 
of those who seek to escape the rigor of a Northern winter, so that the choice of a route 
is, of course, the first and most important consideration to those who intend going there. 
We would, therefore, invite the attention of our friends and patrons to the splendid 
facilities afforded by the 

ST. LOUIS & SOUTHEASTERN RAILWAY. 

Being the SHORT LINE between St. Louis and the Southeast, the traveler saves many 
miles by purchasing his tickets via this popular route. 




tMoxm & &ttt%a*fep 



RAILWAY, 

C3&THE SHORT LINE^o 

And positively the Best Route from 

ST. LOUIS TO NASHVILLE, TEN!., 

Where it connects for all points 

SOUTH -^ZTnTID SOUTHEAST. 

INCLUDING 

Chattanooga, Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, Brunswick Savannah, Jacksonville, 

Fla., Charleston, Decatur, Huntsville, Montgomery, Pensacola, 

Mobile, New Orleans, Bristol, Knoxville, Lynchburg, 

Petersburg, Norfolk, and Richmond, 

THUS FOKMING THE 

Great Trunk Route between these Points, St. Louis and the Great West, 

Travelers, remember this is the PASSENGER AND MAIL ROUTE. 
It affords you the advantage of 

(gullman palace (SleepingiCars on all $ight grains 

Arrangements have been made whereby we are enabled to furnish Tourists with 

ROUND-TRIP TICKETS TO PENSACOLA, FLORIDA 

AT GREATLY REDUCED RATES. 

Also, EMIGRANT TICKETS have been placed on sale by this Line, and special 
inducements are offered to Colonists and Emigrants. 

J. H. WILSON, Gen'l Manager. JNO. W. MASS, Gen'l Pass. 2s Ticket Agent. 

»®-For a Copy of this Book Free send your address to W. D. CHIPLEY, Gen'l Manager P.R.R., Pensacola, Fla. 



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NEW ORLEANS ' 

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ALL IPOIItTTS IIsT TEXAS 




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Washington, Richmond, or Lynchburg and Atlanta. 

THROUdH PULLMAN CARS PHILADELPHIA to NEW ORLEANS WITHOUT CHAN&E. 



ItTIEW ozr,i_.:e^:n~s 7 ■vijl 

Tnrough Pullman Gars New York to Cincinnati — Tlirongri Pullman Cars Cincinnati to New Orleans. 



Passengers via Montgomery can take Pensacola en route, or passengers via Mobile 
can diverge at that point for a visit to the Bay City. 

As an additional feature for the accommodation of Western Travel going South, 
attention is called to the 

THROUGH PULLMAN SLEEPING CAR 

Leaving St. Louis daily, at io P. M. on the 

St. (Louis g gron .Mountain, (Mobile $ §hio and $ew §rleans g (Mobile Road 

Arriving at New Orleans at 11.25 A. M. the second morning. 
Connection with this car is made from Eastern Cities, via Chicago or Indianapolis 
by either of the Great Trunk Lines Westward, without change of Cars. 

fl^ALL THE ADVANTAGES OF MODERN TRAVEL 

Are thus given to every section of the country over 

TIEUE MOBILE LIITB! 

The equipment of this line "has no equal south of the Ohio River." 

The engines are of the first class, and always in perfect order. 

The Day Parlor Cars are models of elegance, fully equipped with the Automatic 
Air Brake, and all conveniences for the toilet. 

Elegant Eating-Houses, smooth track, beautiful views and fast time. 
S. E. CAEEY, F. P. MARSH, D. B. ROBINSON, 

G. P. & T. A, New Orleans. E. P. Agent, New York. Sup't, New Orleans. 

a^Tor a Copy of this Book Free send your address to W. D. CHIPLEY, Gen'l Manager P.R.R., Pensacola, Fla. 



THE 



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AND ALL POINTS WEST AND NORTHWEST, 



TO 



ENSACOLA 

(Mobile and $ew §rleans. 



DEIXIPIE^IESS TZE^J^HsTS 



PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS 

TO PRINCIPAL POINTS 

T i 'h^©^k&^ 'W s i%^© f yfet @ka^g@ e 




For Particulars call upon or address E. A. FORD, Gen'l Passenger Agent, 

St. Louis, Mo.; or 

H. H. MARLEY, Northern Pass. Agent, i o4 Clark St., Chicago, III. 



or a Copy of this Book Free send your address to W. D, CHIPLEY, Gen'l Manager P.R.R., Pensacola, Fla, 



— THE 



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EAILWAT: 



GREAT THOROUGHFARE 



rFKOnvn the 





to THE 



C3-TJLF PORTS 



AND THE 



Cities in Southern and Central Texas. 



The longest continuous lines of Sleeping Cars in the world are run over this line, 
which, on account of its 



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Has been awarded the Fast Southern Mail. This line is equipped with all the modern 
appliances — Westinghouse Automatic Air-Brakes, Miller Platforms, etc. 

Consult the latest official Time Tables, and compare them with all other 

routes, and see the advantages gained in points of time and seasonable hours of 
arrival and departure at all principal cities. 

EDMUND L. TYLER, Vice-Pres't and Sup't, GEO. NASON, Gen. Pass, and Fr't Ag't, 

MONTGOMERY, ALA. MOBILE, ALA. 



or a Copy of this Book Free send your address to W D. CHIPLEY, Gen' I Manager P.R.R., Pensacola, Fla. 



EXCURSION RATES 



TO 









Pensacola Railroad 

IS THE ONLY LINE 



BY WHICH 



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JjWitla an fa tml\t\\ mil}^ummnWttl\th 

INQUIRE OF TICKET AGENTS EVERYWHERE. 



CHEAP HOMES 

ON LONG CREDIT. 

THE PENSACOLA RAILROAD WILL SELL 80,000 ACRES OF LAND 
UPON THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS: 

EVERY ALTERNATE QUARTER SECTION (160 Acres), 
OR EVERY ALTERNATE HALF SECTION (320 Acres), 

Will be sold to actual settlers who will make improvements, at 

10 Cents per Acre Cash; 

25 Cents per Acre in one year, no interest; 
25 Cents per Acre in two years, no interest ; 
25 Cents per Acre in three years, no interest ; 
25 Cents per Acre in four years, no interest ; 
$3 for Cost of Deed. 

Let the many who are looking to Florida as their future home "prospect " in the 
West, as well as the South and East, before they determine on localities. The Western 
portion of Florida can well afford to risk the comparison. 

For further information, or a copy of this Book Free, address 

W. D. CHIPLEY, Gen'l Manager, Pensacola, Fla. 



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RAILROAD. 

TEE QUICKEST, BEST AND ONLY LINE 

With which Passengers from the South make direct connection at Louisville with 

PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING CARS 

Running through to 

Pittsburg, $arrisburg, Philadelphia, $ew gork and other pastern cities 
WITHOUT OHAITG-E. 



This is the Only Line by which Pullman Southern Sleepers are run from New 
Orleans, Mobile, Jackson, Miss., Montgomery, Grenada, Decatur, Jack- 
son, Tenn., and Nashville to Cincinnati, and from Cincinnati to same 
points without change. 

The Only Line by which Pullman Palace Sleepers are run between Louisville 
New York and other Eastern Cities without change. Passengers en route 
to or from Pensacola have no change of cars via this line between Cin- 
cinnati and Pensacola (Junction.) 

Through Sleepers from Atlanta, Chattanooga, Little Rock, Memphis and 
Vicksburg make direct connection at Short Line Junction with Through 
Sleepers to New York and other Eastern Cities. 

This is the only line running its entire trains from Louisville to Cincinnati and 
vice versa thereby causing no delay to Passengers (incident to other 
lines) by having to wait at Junctional Stations for delayed trains from 
other points in order to proceed to their destination. 

!t is Stone Ballasted, has a smooth track, and is entirely free from dust. 

Tickets can be purchased via this line at all Ticket Offices in the North, 
East and South. Ask for Tickets via the Louisville and Cincinnati Short 
Line., (L, C. & L R. R.) 

S. S. PARKER, Gen'l P. & T. A. JOHN MAC LEOD, Gen'l Sup't 

JOHN KILKENY, Gen'l Traveling Passenger Agent, 
or a Copy of this Book Free send your address to W. D, CHIPLEY, Gen'l Manager P.R.R., Pensacola, Fla. 



BiE E LINE 



The Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway (Bee Line) is 

the only Direct and Commodious Route from Ontario, Western 

New York, Northern Pennsylvania, and Ohio, 

To Pensacola, New Orleans, Mobile, 

BILOZI, MISSISSIPPI CITY, PASS CHRISTIAN, 

And all Pleasure Resorts of the Gulf Coast. 

OlSTHSYT 02TIE] QIHI^.IN'Gr-IE] OIF 0-A.IR,S. 

THREE TRAINS DAILY VIA INDIANAPOLIS. 
TWO TRAINS DAILY VIA CINCINNATI. 

(Morning Trains from Cleveland do not run Sunday.) 

For particular information inquire of your nearest ticket agent, or address the under- 
signed. 

S. F. PIERSOX, Gen'l Ticket Agent. 



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COEEESPOMDBNCE SOLICITED. 

ESTIMATES FUHNISHED. 

This pamphlet was issued from our Establishment. 
Fo7a Copy Free send^rTddress to W. D. CHIPLEY, General Manager Pensacola 
Railroad, Pensacola, Fla. 



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